Week 18- August 26, 2012

Week 18

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Hey everyone,

This week we had a zone conference (where we meet with all the missionaries) in Zhubei. So we had to take a 30 minute bus ride and then an hour train ride to the church in Zhubei. We then had a six hour training with the mission president and other missionaries in this area. The mission president taught us about working better with the Church members and having them help us find people to teach. The mission president’s focus is on working with part-member families and to teach friends of Church members. I think this is really smart because now those we find to teach will have Church member friends to support them and help them.

On Saturday, Michael McClean (a Mormon musician) came to Taiwan and did a little concert thing in an auditorium. We took an investigator and went with some ward members to the concert. It was cool to see a bunch of other missionaries there who I haven’t seen since the MTC (2 months ago) and to see that their Chinese is struggling just like mine is. (that’s how it is for everyone the first few months)

We met with Lin Ren Shan this week. He is an 18 year old kid that is really interested in the gospel. He came to church and cried when the youth were singing because he was feeling the Spirit. He is almost done with all of the lessons and should be baptized in the next few weeks.

We also met with an 18 year old sister this week. Her sister is a member and she is planning on getting baptized next Saturday. She is a solid investigator. She knows everything is true. We were just working with her on coming to church. She had to work on Sundays, but recently was able to get Sundays off. So she can come to church every week now.

Yesterday, when we were at an 88 year old man’s house (we've been meeting with him), my companion was- “ Look- wow!” I looked and there was, (no joke), a 6 inch spider on the man’s desk. I popped up out my seat and was-“ what is that thing!” Then it ran away. Guo Bebe (the 88 year old man) wasn’t even phased. He was like –“I’ll just step on it.” Then earlier this week a less active member we were visiting had 3 inch flying cockroaches flying around during our lessons! It was nasty!

Anyways that’s the excitement out here.

Love ya,

Jordan Chatman